Improvement in seed-planters



D; L. TILTON.

Seed Planter.

No. 19,456. Patented Feb. 23, 1858.

AM. PHOTO-LITHO. C0.NX (OSBURNE'S PROCESS) DANIEL L. TILTON, OF MOUNT CARMEL, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN SEED-PLANTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. [9.456, dated February 23, 1858.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL L. Timon, of MountOarmel, Wabash county, Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in SeedingPlows; and I hereby declare the following to be a full and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification.

My invention consists in a mode of adapting a common plow to sow in drills, and also to completely cover weeds, 850., in the act of plowing.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of the implement, the hopper being shown in section. Fig. 2 represents a portion of the machine viewed from above.

A represents the beam of a common plow, provided with an adjustable pitch-wheel, B.

O is a seed-hopper delivering seed into the freshly-opened furrow through a ventage, one side of which consists of a rocking block, D, whose fulcrum d rests in abracket, E, so hinged to the frame of the plow as to admit of a forward and backward adj ustment to regulate the delivery of seed in accordance with the kind and quantity to be sown. The vibration of the block D is effected by a rod, F, extending forward to a circle of tabs, b, on the wheel B, and confined at itsfront end by a stirrup, G. This vibration maybe varied by the substitution of a difl'erent tab-wheel or by changingthe fulcrum d.

H is a swing-valve, which, being raised byplement; and its superiority to the common seed-drill in the following respects. The drill is applicable only to clear and even ground, requires practiced and skillful management, is liable to choke and become deranged, and its cost places it beyond thereach of many farmers. Moreover, drilling must of necessity be a distinct operation from that of plowing, whereas on the. plan here exhibited, at an expense less than one-thirtieth the cost of a drill, a common plowcan he adapted to sow simultaneously with plowing in any kind of ground, and can he worked by the ordinary and always available farm force at an outlay for labor at least fifty cents per acre under that of the drill. Beside which, the seed, being deposited in freshly-plowed ground, is placed in circumstances more favorable to germination.

The efl'ect of the tines J on weeds, brush, &c., is very striking and complete. The resistance of the weeds forces the tines into a position obliquely backward and torward, as in Fig. 2, and by them the weeds, as the plow advanees,are bent downward and forward and caused to rollover on each other like the strands of a rope, so that, falling closely into the furrow, they'are completely covered by the furrow-slice.

In adjusting the capacity of the seeding-aperture care should be observed that it; be not completely closed in any position of the block D, the intention being to discharge the seed in a continuous and uniform stream.

I claim as new and of myinvention herein The arrangement of the vibrating block 1), adjustable bracket E, with or without the valve H, in the described combinationwith the hopper 0, for the purposes set forth.

In testimony of'which invention I hereunto set my hand.

DANIEL. L.- TILTON.

Attest:

GEO. H. KNIGHT, J OHN W. PIATT. 

